The Express. — London, England, 1848-02-09 00:00:00

IRIBM FRANCHISE AND REDI - ITRATION. Mr. S. O'BRIEN asked the Secretary for Ireland whether It was intended to introduce this session the long-promised bells relating to the franchise and the registration of voters in Ireland ? Sir W. SOMERVILLE replied, that it was intended to introduce mach bills this year. HURON v. DENMAN. Mr. URQUHART was understood to leek, whether the Attorney-General bad sanctioned the appearance of Sir F. Kelly, in a cue now pending in the courts of law ? The ATTORNEY.GENERAL understood the question of the hon. gentleman to refer to a cue which had excited some attention onto( doors,and he was obliged to him for giv ing him an opportunity of correcting some misapprehensions which had gone abroad relative to the position of Sir Fitzroy Kelly. The ewe referred to wu the case of " Huron e. Den man, ' in which Sir F. Kelly appeared. as he believed, for the first time, on the Mt of June, 1844, when he ar gued upon a demurrer to one of the defendant's eitee. No further step in the case was taken until November, 1546, when a motion being nude in the Court of Exchequer, Mr. Davenport Hill appeared as leading counsel for the Plaintiff. It happened that that learned gentleman was senior to Sir Fitzroy Kelly, but Sir Fitzroy having in the meantime filled the office of Solicitor-General, it was of course impossible for him to take a brief under Mr. Hill, and be consequently did not appear in court. When the case came under his (the Attorney-General's) cogaisanee, he was informed by the learned gentleman the member for Kidder minster, who filled the office of Judge Advocate of the fleet and counsel to the Board of Admiralty, that Sir Fitzroy Kelly was in the ease ; and bi ing further consulted on the subject, he (the learned Attorney-General) advised that be should be retained on the pert of the defendants. That step having been taken, the circumstance led to the presentation of a petition to that house complaining of what had been done, and also to the appearance of articles in a daily newspaper (the Daily News) commenting upon the fact,. Upon seeing these article* he (the Attorney-General), on the 14th January, wrote as follows to Sir Fitzroy Kelly : You probably have beard of the petition presented to the Rouse of Commons relative to the case of Buren c. Denman," and of the article in the Daily Ares founded upon it From what 1 know of the circumstances, I believe that you are tree from blame in this matter; bet 1 shall be glad to receive any communication you may have to make upon this subject, and lure only to add, that I am willing, upon Ute part of the clown, in release you from your engagement to the crown, should you think that under the circionstanocs you ought to bold a brief fur the plaintiff, or to decline to act for either party. On the 21st he received from Sir Fitzroy the following m tletrez, Jsz.ll.—My dear Attorney-General : I am favoured with yaw letter on the subject of the lotions by Boron and others against Captain Denman. The power of the crown to require the seeme of the queen's counsel at all times is not disputed ; and min this country every mass% counsel is known to be under an oath to plead for the crown at Its Maxim I conceive that be accepts every retainer from • subject un . as plainly implied a reservation that he may be with drawn by the crown, as that he may be incapacitated by sickness or death. This power may Indeed, be exercised sou to do Injustice to indivktnal moors: and the question now is, whether it has been so exercised in this particular case. In the first place, I must exonernte you from any responsibility. Mr. Hay's trillion seems to imply that I had acted as counsel for the plabnaffs, except during a short Interval, until the month of May last, and that yon then required my services. The fact is, that 1 have not so acted in any way sines the month of June, ISIS; and that in the following month of July ( DM), having been appointed Bolieitor.General, I was almost immediately called upon to advise and moist the ministers of the crown epos certain measures f which became law under the act of the nth and nth of Victoria, cap. 51) involving the considei ation of the whole system of the slave trade on the oust of Africa, of the conduct of our naval commanders there, and of our relations with the court of Brasil. It was obvious that I could not, after communication., of this nature, and upon these subjects, with the niinisters of the crown, meat the plaintiffs in these causes as their leading comae', after the defence was taken up by the gorernmeet. It was probably this consideration that induced the then Attorney-General to require my services, and at least restrain me from appearing against the crown on the trial. Voa, as Attorney-Gerseral, when the muses seemed about to be tried a few months ago, merely abstained from interfering with the derision of your predecessor. And as far as regards the mere lots of my ae.elet. ance, there could be no hardship or injustice, for the whole bar was open to the plaintiffs for the selection of a leading counsel to supply my place. But it le urged that after having been consulted and trusted with the case by the plaintiffs, 1 at least ought not to appear as counsel against them. And certainly, if I possessed a knowledge of any Wta imparted to me by the plaintiffs, which I might in • moment of inadvertence diadem!, or the conecimisneee of which !mold In any way affect my conduct in the came, I should feel it my duty to request your authority, not indeed to act as counsel for the plain tiffs—for my communications with the crown while I was Solicitor- General render that impossible—but to retire from the case altogether. And as you allude to Imputations in the news papers, or elsewhere, of undue motives, I must be permitted to ob serve that if any counsel, circumstanced as I am, could he influenced by personal emsderations at all, he would do his best to obtain the been., of the crown to act as counsel for the plaintiffs. If actuated by the love of fame, he would seek to be the holing counsel for the sub ject (generally the popular party) rather than third or fourth counsel for the crown. If by the love of money, his Interest would equally point the same way; for, as you and I well know, the foes pod be the crown are always on a far lower scale than those of indivi dual suitor. In almeet the last case in which I was opposed to the crown, my ices were more than nine times the amount of the then Solicitor-General; and in these very CMs they would have been four or fire times the amount of cren yours, as !coding counsel for the crown. But whatever may be my own Inclinations, tar my interest, I have no grounds upon which I can claim indul gence; for having only held some consultations upon the pleadings many years ago, and argued a demurer, I think early in 1815, I have not the slighteet recollection of a single fact communinited to MC on the part of the orotund% upon which lan found a claim to be excused from appearing as counsel for the crown. Whether from the plaintiffs being foreigners, and the importance of all that be longs to our legal institutions being pace. beyond su-picion among foreig• nations, you may think it right to release me from appearing upon the trial for the crown, is a queolon entirely for your own con sideration, upon which I ,to not offer an opinion.. -1 remain, my dear Attorney-General, very truly yours, FITtALOV KELLY: This being the state of the case, he (the Attorney-0 1) had only to add that upon the receipt of Sir Fitzroy Kelly's letter, he ordered a communication to be made to the attor ney for ti e plaintiff to the effect that the crown would not require Sir Fitzroy Kelly's assistance in the case. (Rear, hear.) THE GLOUCESTERSHIRE PETITIONS. • - Mr. UNANTLEY BERKELEY said, that with what ever pain to his own feelirgs, his public duty compelled him again to request the attention of the Home Secretary to the matter of the two petitions from Gloucestershire, complain ing of the conduct of the lord lieutenant of that county which had been sent to her Majesty's Secretary of State for presentation to tht Queen. One of these was from "the mothers and daughters "of the county ; and he believed nearly 1,400 of them had signed it. What he wished to in quire was, whether these peti ions had been received and duly submitted to the knowledge of the crown, if a copy had been forwarded to the lord lieutenant of the county, and if any explanation in answer had been demanded at his hands? . . . . . Sir G. GREY said he had stated yesterday that these peti- tions had been duly received. and he could only now add that they had been put in the course which was usual with reference to petitions intended for the personal cognisance of the sovereign. Of course he (Sir G. Grey) was the minister responsible for the due presentation of those petition►. With respect to the other part of the question no copies had been sent to the lord lieuten►nt, nor had he been called upon to give any explanation or answer. JAMAICA. Mr. OOULBURN ;bee rererence to eertain papers laid upnnthe tahle of the house yesterday, that though they contained c irresponienca from all the other West India colonies there was nothing in them from the island of Jamaica. He wished to ask what was the cause of this omission, sad if there woulit be any objection to lay upon the table copies of the latest effici.l intelligence received from that colony? Mr. LABOUCHE BE. in reply, sail that the reason there wee no " blue book," as it was called, relating to the affairs of Jamaica was, because no such documents had been for warded from the colony. Lord Elgin, before leaving Jamaica, having sent ample information to the government, relative to the condition of that island, his successor, Sir Chas. Grey, who had only recently gone then', was of opinion that there was nothing material that he could judiciously add to those reports. With regard to the latter p:srt of the quest on, al though there was no recent despatch giving any general ac count of the state of th' island, rt he found that there were certain documinits in the Colonial-office which it was con sidered desirable to submit to parliament, and which should be laid on the table se soon as possible. LEAVE OF ABSENCE. On the motionWlTOn.identioer;;lealTe of absence was granted to Mr. Ludlow Bruaeg for one month, and to Mr. Thomas Duncombe for two month., both on account of THE NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT. . - Mr. HUME said he wished to ask the Speaker of the house what he was to do with reward to certain returns which had been presented in consequence of their order, ob tained at his instance, relative to tne expenses of the new House of Commons ? He had moved for an account show ing what was the total amount voted, what bad been paid, and what was owing; and, the original estimate for the works having been shout 700.0001. he found by the return that up to the end of 1815, 813,000 1. had been expended, and an estimate was given that about half a million more would be required, independent of 150,0001. rot. LI last year, and not taken into account. It would seem, therefore, that the total expenditure was to be not 700,0001., but 1,400,0001. ; but in this account be found that nu estimates whatever were included as to the cost of purcha.sing the buildings on the south side of Bridge•st reef, or as to other works and fittings, including decorations, upholstery, the cost of restoring St. Stephen's chapel, &c. &c., all of which, he believed, would coot half a million more at least. (Hear, hear.) Such an account as this seemed to him calculated very much to confuse the house, and he thought it highly necessary that the attention of the government, of parliament, and of the country, should be called to it. An hon. gentleman below him, however, had taken upon himself to insist upon moving for the ap pointment of a committee in this case. If he intended so to do, then would certainly be the most convenient time for discussing the matter; and in such case he (Mr. Hume) would postpone his observations. What he would ask, therefore, was when that hon. gentleman proposed, if at all, to bring forward his motion Sir H. H. INGLIS said that in reply to this question, "when, if at all, he intended to bring forward his motion," he had only to say that although he did give notice of a motion on the subject, somewhere about the 15th of Decem ber last, yet he was so far from wishing to take it upon himself to move the appointment of such a committee, that he should be very unwilling to do so unless with the general concurrence of the house. Even if be was likely to carry his motion only by a very small majority, he should not be at all inclined to press it. It was one of no great public in terest--it involved no question of public principle. It would involve a sacrifice of time on his part that he was by no means anxious to make, and he had no personal interest in the matter whatever to gratify. If, however, it were the pleasure of the house to support him in the appointment of a committee, he would bring forward the measure—he could not say exactly upon what day—it certainly would not be any day in the present week. Mr. SBORNE (after a pause) said this matter assumed so very unsatisfactory a character, that be thought he was jtutifiel in asking the noble lord, the Fint Commissioner of Woods and Forests, whether he would have any objection to lap upon the table a detaild estimate, Mowing that 1,400,000/. would be all that wwild be required ? He would also auk tithe Woods and Forests held themselves responsible for all that wee ordered ? Viscount MORPETH.—The amount mentioned by the hoc. gentleman is the amount of the architect's e.timate, and I can only say I hope he will be able to bear it out. (Loud laniuteTr.) soothes pause, Mr. OSBORNE mid: Really, after this answer, and con sidering that we ham a deficient end a sinking remelts, I think I am entitled to put a question to the First Lord of the Treasury, and I beg to ask that noble lord if he . - is prepared to eke* this 011101,11066 expense, and if he will give this Items lead the country some &entrance that no more than the 1,400,0001., specified in the estimate, shall be spent ? (Cries of " Hear, hear.") Lord J. RUSSELL—It is imporeible for me to my mere 1122_31 te . 7 noble friend has said. (Oh.) I must decline to be ble for my anti:MeV!' emissive. (Laughter.) =OSBORNE—Then, sir, I will call attention to the sabject upon the first order of the day. (" Hear, hear," and cheering.) BODMIN ELECTION PETITION. Mr. J. CLAY moved, to refer the two petitions of Henry Charles Lacy, Esq., relative to the Bodmin election (pre sented Feb. 7), to the committee on the Cheltenham Elm Lion petition.—Ordered. CARLOW (BOROUGH) ELECTION PETITION. Mr. SCULLY moved, to refer the petition of John Bad leir, Esq., M.P. (presented Dec. 20), to the select committee on the petition of Sir Willoughby Jones, relating to the Cheltenham electioa.-7Ordered. FEES ON SUITORS IN CHANCERY. Mr. AGLIONI3Y moved, that all petitions which have been presented to the house, praying for inquiry into the feat imposed upon the suitors of the High Court of Chancey be England, in pursuance of the powers contained in the set 6 and 6 Viet., c. 103, be referred to the Committee on Fete and Salerno in Courts of Law and Equity.—Ordered. ORDER OF BUSINESS—MR. ANSI El 'S MOTION. Tuesday being a day on which notices of mutioa hays pre cedence of orders of the day, the debate upon the Jewish Disabilities Bill could not, in regular course. come on until after the motions had been disposed of. There were several " notice of motion" on the paper, the first being that of Mr. Chi-holm Anstey, relative to the foreign policy of the go virninent. The time having arrived for the paper to be regularly gone through, Mr. HUME rose to submit to the hon. member for Youghal whether, consigering that en important debate on a national question had been adjourned to that night, it wee prudent in him to bring forward a motion, containing forty articles, every one of which would give rise to an ordinary day's debate, to the interruption of the adjourned debate. He did not make this request with the view of ahirkieg the Ruestions likely to be raised by the hon. gentleman's mo tion, because he was moat anxious that they should be de bated, but the house having heed brought together on a matter of so much public interest as the question awaiting discussion, he would urge upon the hon. gentleman not to persevere in bringing forward another question. Seeing how anxious all parties were to proceed with the adjourned debate, he treated the hon. member would take the hint, and await a more favourable opportunity for discussion. Mr. A. STAFFORD, as mover of the amendment under discussion, wished, before the hon. member rose, to assure him that it was the universal wish of members on that side of the house to close the debate that evening. If, therefore, the hon. member did proceed, it would be against the sense of the whole body of the bowie. Mr. C. ANSTEY begged to assure the hoe. gentleman who had last spoken that if anything personal could have induced him to postpone this motion it would he his request; hut he must put it to the house that he was not fairly treated in this matter,—that he was very unfairly dealt with. An ap peal had been made to him in private, and he had given a satis factory answer to it, and that answer he had now to repeat. It wee simply this. Last night he had been pressed by ve rities eeMaben to state distinctly and definitively if he would goon to night. lie replied that at ell hazards he should exer efte his right. lie had pledged his honour that he would do es, and he thought he should beet consult his own views Of propriety by adhering to that pledge. The hen. member wee about to proceed when Lord J. RUSSELL rose and said : If the hon. member does proceed he must clearly understand that he does so er direct opposition to the express wilt of the house. I shall ask nothing for myself, but it is right that I should call des attention of the hon. member, who is lege acquainted, plea haps, the others are, with our usages, to the fact that ft Is generally considered for the public convenience that a debate which has once been begun should be permitted to proceed. ' Mr. C. ANSTEY said be was perfectly aware of the rules of the house ; but he thought he should be able to show the noble lord before he sat down that he had goon ground for considering this case an exception to their ordinary customs. He was about to ask for more than papers. His present motion was merely preliminary to another of a much graver kind; and when he said that that motion would perhaps affect the entire government, as well as the noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs, he was sure that the noble lord at the head of the treasury would be the last person to press for a postponement. He did not undervalue or deny the import ance of the measure before the house, but he would under take to satisfy them before he sat down that his motion woe one of infinitely greater importance. The subject he had to bring before them was, foreign aggressinn from abroad and internal treason at borne. ( A laugh.) He could net conceive but that the government would be most anxious for him to press these questions. One of their own members, the present Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, had declared that " be who nromoted discussions oa foreign affairs in that house did good service to the state, for it was lamentable how much indifference was manifested by all classes in England to our foreign relations and foreign policy." The question, how ever, lay in a nutshell. He denied that there was anything personal in the motion which he sought to bring forward. He proceeded entirely upon a principle of public duty, invin dication of a great nation, whose happiness, whose pros perity, whose very existence, was imperilled by the conduct of the noble member for Tiverton. He was prepared to es tablish that the designs of our natural enemy, the Czar of Remit, had been, from 1830 to the present time, so pro moted by the policy of the noble lord, that they were now on the point of being realised, unit se the house, by a vigorous decision on the p.esent occasion, stepped in to stay the Auto crat's further progress. In Peliand the Czar had acquired a ti rritory as large as Austria in'furkey in Europe, &territory as large as Prussia without the Rh, 'lid' provinces ; in Turkey in Asia, a territory as large as all Germany and the Rhenish provinces. He had extended his frontier a thousand miles nearer towards Calcutta, a thousaud nearer towards Lahore, and 850 nearer towards the capitals of southern Europe. He referred to the steady determination with which Russia had, during the past century, been using every possible means, by fraud, and force, to extend her power • and then intimated his intention of tracing, step by step, the progress of the noble lord's most mischievous policy, prepared, unless he prosecuted the noble lord to conviction, hy the adduction of the direct proofs of the noble lord's guilt, to undergo the castigation he should then most justly deserve. He commenced with the year 1829, when the government of this country was conducted by the Duke of Wellington, - Lord Aberdeen being Secretary of Foreign Affairs, and the energies of the government being directed to repress the aggressions of Russia, and to maintain the treaty of London. At that time the noble viscount, from the opposition benches, ea sailed the government for not making concessions melee faveurable to Russia, end a despatch from the Russian minister at the time spoke in the most eulogistic language of the noble lord's support of the Russian cause, as against the liberties both of Europe and of Asia. The hon. gentleman quoted a speech of Lord Palmerston in 1829, wherein the noble viscount urged the propriety of Turkey's making " timely concessions to the just demands of Russia," the concessions demanded by Russia being ti rritorial aggran disemeote, wholly at var iance with the treaty of London. Another despatch from Prince Lieven, at about the same period, also referred to the noble lord as a distinguished sup , porter of Russian policy. In 1830, the noble lord came into allele In the meantime the French revolution of July had broken out, and there was a strong excitement in this coun try for parliamentary re'orm, and for a warm friendship with France, in assertion of the liberties of the world against all absolutist powers, rind more especially against Russia. The noble lord, on coming to office, found it inconvenient to oppose the national feeling, or to give utterance to his sympathy with Russia; so that for a while he remained altogether silent on the subject of Russia. Meantime the p licy which the noble lord had attempted out of office, but which he feared publicly to prosecute, WAS silently promoted by the noble lord in every pert of the world where Russian interests were in agitation ; and it became him here to mention that the treaty of Adrisaople hail been distinctly protested against both by the Duke of Wellington and by Lerd Aber deen, as appeared (roved ieuments left by them in the Foreign office. In the year 1833 Turkey found herself involved in a war with the Pacha of Egypt, whose army, under Ibrahim Pacha, invaded the Turkish provinces. He would not stop to pint out how cr in what manner Ibrahim had been pushed on by one of the European powers to menace Constantinople in the year 1833. The Porte, however, found it diffieult to resist the progress of the Egyptian forces without calling in the aid of its allies ; and England, then under the guidance of the noble lord, in so far as its foreign affairs were concerned, was invoked to come to the assist ance of the Sultan, and to guarantee the integrity of his dominions. England, acting through the medium of the noble lord, refused to do what the Porte had requested, and Russia then tendered her assistance, which was proffered upon such terms as were at first rejected by the Porte, but which ultimately led to the treaty of Unkiar Skelesei, whereby the guardianship of the person of the Sultan was entrusted to Russia. The hon. member was proceeding to develop the immediate results of this treaty, when he was interrupted by a motion from some hon. member (whose name was not known in the gallery) that the house be counted, whereupon the gallery was cleared, and, forty members not being present, the house adjourned at a quarter past eight. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1848. Juetfoss is mops raktlng to county rate*. flea. 1.1 Males of not lei titan twenty-one years seised of or in possessioa of lauds, tc., or equitably entitled to their ruts, Mate dear yearly value of 61. starling, may act as juatie s. m ot utten too:malty rates. Bee. 2. They are to be 'lustiet§ s county rats, " tad, u far as r t h e r e extend, are to enjoy the privileges of they of the peace. S . 3. They ars to take an oath that they are duly qualified, and the oaths of allegiance, au , and abjuration. Sec. 4. Any penes acting without quali Hon incurs a penalty of 60 1 . for every time ha acts. Bee. 6. Peers of parliament, members of the privy council, and members of parliament, may act without local qualification. Bee. 6. Justices of county rates are disqualified by becoming insol vent. Bee. 7. The an does not extend to fimtland. (54.)—KAFFIR WAR.—CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.— Estimate of the sums that will probably be required for this war during the years 1846.7 and 1817-8, beyond the ordi nary pante for army and navy services.— hor year ending March 31, 1847, 620,0001. ; for year ending March 31, 1848, 680,0001. • in all, 1,100,111. (63.) kICHEQUER BlLLB.—Accoant of Exchequer Bills raised or authorised to be raised and charged on the aids or supplies of 1848. The sum total is 18,310,7001. To the amount of 216,0001. has been paid in money out of the surplus of ways and means in 1847 ; and 149.0001. have been paid off in money in 1847 by the commissionen for the reduction of the national debt ; there remains to be pro vided for in the present year the amount of 17,946,5001. (64.) linasime-lltrrca LOAN.—There was paid in 1847 of interest on sinking fond 6,250 8.; of interest on the debt 8.50,000 6. ' • due Jan. 1, 1848,17,000,000 ft. The re payments at the rate of exchange when they were made amounted to 92,8721. le. 9d.; Mr. Pemberton, agent for paying the loan, was paid 3001.; In all 93,1721. Is. 9d. (55.) NE.W HOUsEB Cl' PARLIAMENT,—Mr. Barry reports that the peers' and commons' libraries, the peers' re freshment rooms, and the offices attached thereto, and the olden for the clerk of the crown, may be occupied prior to the Easter recess. The committee rooms and corridors of the one-pair story in the river front might bare been com pleted by Easter if the rooms had not been required for use at the commencement of the present session. There are at present 1,399 men employed on the works of the New Pekoe : 776 at the building ; 120 at the quarries ; 33.5 at the government works at Thames-bank on the joiners' work and wood carving ; and 168 on miscellaneous works at the buildings and elsewhere. PAPER presented by her Majesty's commands to both houses.—Accession of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg (signed at Hanover, Dec. 28, 1847), to the convention be tween Great Britain and Hanover, for the establishment of international copyright. (751) (of 1847). CLASSIFIED AssraAcrs of the numbers of elector* in the counties, cities, and boroughs of Great Britain fur the year 1846. The total of registered electors in 1846 was as follows: Counties. Ours and Boroughs Total. England Walea Scotland Totals 361,329 There were 320,645 ten-pound voters in the cities and boroughs of England, Wales, and Scotland:-101. and not exceeding 151., 90,149; 151. and not exceeding 201., 46,632; 201. and not exceeding 2.51., 31,697 ; 2.51 and not exceeding 301., 24,884; 301. and net exceeding 401., 32,641 ; 401. and not exceeding 50/., 21,181 ; 501. and not exceeding 701., 23,071; 701. and not exceeding 100!.,1:5,585; exceeding 1001., 21,619. There were in the boroughs of England and Wales 7,701 seot.and.lot voters, and 2,597 potwallopers. There were in the counties of England and Wales 108,795 Chandos clause electors. There were in the counties of Suotland 1,709 urvivors of the old paper voters. ght erpreo. MAILS The mails for British North America. Bermuda. sad the UMW , otateso will be made up on the evening of the Ilth February. The West India Mails, corbeling Bermuda, Naaau, Havanna, Ilondurae, New Orleans, Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Porto Rico, and including those for Madeira, 'acme], llerthagena, Santa Martha, Lliagrea, Panama, West Coast of south America, and hi. Juan-de. Nicaragua, will be made up on the morning of the 17th February. The reads for Vigo, °port°, 1.1,03011, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar will be made up on the lawmen of the 17th February. Tbe overland nulls for Gibraltar, Malta,tireece, the lonian islands Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, I !long-Kong, And China, ma SouUmmplon will be made up on the morning of the 20th February. The rude for New South Wales, Vsn inemen's Land, sad New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the 27th February. The overland dined mats, rue Marseilles, to tbe Mediterranean Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong Kong, ac., will be made up on the reaming of the 24th Yebrain7. The mails for the Weet Coast of Africa and Madeira will be made ap on the evening of the 2Mh February. The mail for the Brazils, the Kiser Platt, Monte Video, Perinea. boar, Bahia, Madeira, and Bueum Ayres, will be made up on the evening ul the 4th March. demo, and of contradiction to prophecy. WAR- Burma proved to his own satisfaction that Inflates scheme, which Mr. COCHRANE now eulogises, was opposed to the will of Pro vidence; but he did not go so far as to aigoe that it had prevailed against that obstacle. Mr. NEWDEGATE may comfort himself by the reflection, that if the Jews aro destined never to sit in parliament, they never will sit there, however wide the doors are opened for their admission. The best way to try the experiment iv, to offer no human impediment to the innovation, but to trait to the divine prohibition. But those who have recourse to religion to supersede reason and help out their rhetoric, are seldom con tent to quote and alter oracles, without taking active steps for fulfilling them. It is impossible to suppose that even dilettanti statesmen are influenced by such arguments as they offer to others. Their votes are founded on prejudice, and sometimes on caprice— their reasons are such as their ingenuity can after wards furnish. - - - Of the opponents of the bill in the first night's de- I bate, LordTdartos alone kept dear of obvious falla cies. Mr. STAFFORD, with all his cleverness, was reduoed to the singularly bathetic argument, that Jews will be liable to lose their places on the benches of the house, even when they are admitted within the bar. The tickets which secure a special place for the evening, allege that the members who deposit no them have been present at prayers. low, says Mr. STAFFORD, can a Jew be present at ' , ere, or say that he has been present? He iht as well at once swallow the formula of the akin ' n oath. Ho will be allowed to sit indeed; but be will have no seat provided. Such are the materials fbr a future Jewish agitation which Mr. STAFFORD discovers. Without meeting the difficulty, we are perfectly jus tified in postponing the consideration of it. When tke ingenuity of the house has failed to discover some method of providing Mr. ROTHSCHILD with a Boat, it will be time for the advocates of the Jews to attack, and for Mr. STAFFORD to defend, an arrangement, which will then form the last relic of religious in tolerance. These who think that religions feeling is all on one side in the dispute, may be gratified, if of an exci table temperament, with Mr. SIIEIL'B denunciation of 'the "fiend" Ik.LINGBROKE, who certainly, if not in common parlance a fiend, was a more formidable ' enemy to Christianity than the great Hebrew capitalists of the present day. For cooler reasoners the speech of the member for the city of Oxford will contain much instruction and satisfaction. It is impossible to mistake the thoroughly religious tone of Mr. Woon's reasoning, or to suppose that his repudiation of the principles of sectarian exclusiveness arises from in difference. His investigation of the popular saying, that Christianity is parcel of the law of the land, de serves particular attention. Ile showed that when such a rule was really in force, it involved the recog. nition of the church as co-extensive with the state; and that, in the judicial decisions of HALE and Lord HARDWICEE, it must be confined to the matter imme diately subject to their cognizance. The maxim, as enun ciated by Chief Justice HALE, would, in the opinion of CoLentlx;e, if it had emanated from a Unitarian di vine instead of from a Puritan lawyer, have met with the contempt which it deserved. In the particular case, howeve-, there could be no doubt that an insult to the prevailing relig ion of the country was an out rage which called for judicial interference; and it may fairly be argued that, as long as the laws against Unita rians were in force, some kind of Christianity did in fact enjoy a legal authority in England. We can hardly suppose that Lord HARDWICKE'S decision would be affirmed in the present day. There is no doubt, we apprehend, that a bequest of personalty for the educa tion of Jews would now be held perfectly valid. However this may be, judges can at most make laws necessary to decide questions that come before them. Extra judicial expressions of opinion are not to guide the constitutional practice of the country. Within the last few days, the members of a court which will not take notice without due proof or allegation that Dublin is in Ireland, have been heard to declare from the bench theit opinions on church polemics and on ecclesiastical history ; but we hope that the world is still at liberty to exercise its own judgment on theo logy and on literature. Mr. WOOD very wisely and logically admitted that the same principle which requires the admission of the Jews to Parliament, would extend, if the circum stances were the same, to persons of all other religious persuasions. He reminded the house that parlia ment has expressly recognised the perfect political equality of the thousand religions of Iridia. A Ma hometan may. as far as the la* is c 'rimmed, be governor-general ; and a Buddhist commander of the forces. If we choose to live among heathens, or if we allow Jews to live among ourselves, we disclaim the pretension to form a religious oligarchy. In the meantime, as a Jew has been elected to parliament, and there is no reasonable probability that a Maho metan will be elected, the practical objections to Islam cannot well be pressed against the present mea sure. In the last century, indeed, a mussulman prince returned several members to parliament by the aid of nomination boroughs; and One member now in the house is said to be the salaried agent of a Malt ratta : but if such arrangements are objectionable, they are not precluded by the establishment of reli gious tests,which only affect the personal qualifications of members of the legislature. At the same time that argument on the one side, and twaddle on the other, were co operating so effi ciently in the task of weakening the positions of reli gious exclusiveness, Lord LAN , DOWNE gave notice in the House of Lords of a measure for legalising diplomatic relations with the court of Rome. We are glad that the government has the courage to deal with this phantom of an imaginary absurdity. It is tolerably certain that there is at present notes' which precludes so rational a proceeding in terms; and Lord blisro's long residence at Rome makes it certain that there is no impediment in substance to the closest diplomatic intercourse with the Vatican. But a fiction, the existence of which is itself a fiction, is quite as dear as a fact to a large class of agitators and alarmists. The practice of nearly two centuries has given to the law against " communion" with Rome an interpretation, of which the words themselves scarcely admit. Since the revolution, no English minister has been formally accredited to Rome, though the POPE has at one time been taken under our special protection, and is now in constant habits of confidential intercourse with a member of the cabinet. Exeter Hall will not fail to bray at the formal recognition of a state of things which neces sarily exists ; and protestants will be told that if the rtates of the church are supposed to exist in the map, the religious aad national independence of Great Britain is at an end. Lord LANSDOWNE need not prepare himself against argument. Re must long ago have been familiar with the no-popery mania in all its forms ; and he must know that it neither uses nor listens to reason ing. Ile may throw in its teeth our Soonite friend the Sultan, our Shihite friend the Shah, our embas sies to the latitudinarian empire of China, our patron age of Rajahs who worship twenty different forms of Siva or of Vishnu. No-Popery will but repent its cry--no communion with Rome. It is a matter for voting rather than for arguing ; and we hope that in both houses the friends of common tense will show that they form a majority. At the same time we would caution the public against expecting too great results from the establish ment of a public acquaintance with the Pope. We know him indeed perfectly well at present ; but we affect to cat him when we meet him in the street. It will be much more convenient to adapt our conduct to the actual state of things. We are, however, far from supposing that by such a step we shall get rid of all undue papal pretensions, or secure an efficient check on turbulent Romish ecclesiastics. A dozen different re scripts from the Vatican have enjoined abstinence from political agitation on the Irish prelates : but the M‘HALEs and O'HIGGINSES respect Rome only when it supports their views. The court of Rome itself will often have views of ecclesiastical aggrandise ment inconsistent with oar policy ; and may not always be willing, even if it were able, to check the sectarian violence of its spiritual subjects. Rut for this very reason it is important to secure the right and opportunity of remonstrance. An unfriendly or bigoted Pope will have no excuse for acting on false or exaggerated statements of our conduct and policy, when it is represented to him by an authorised inter preter. It will be necessary in carrying out the measure, to remove any suspicion which catholics may entertain that it is intended to make use of the Pope as an in strument for destroying their religious freedom. It will also be right to secure Protestants against any encroachments of a foreign power in the kingdom, under pretext of diplomatic missions. The establish ment of an. English minister at Rome will be easy enough. Lord Muer° has only, like the beefeater in the Critic, to unbutton his coat of official reserve, and exhibitbeneath it the waistcoat of an ambassador. Bat the minister of Rome in England must have simply diplomatic functions. Rome has been in the habit of combining diplomatic missions with spiritual jurisdic tion. Legates a latere presided in the councils of the nations to whose sovereigns they were accredited. Even nuncios are not, necessarily, simple messengers. The last who held du t rank in Ireland, RIMUCCINI, made himself the leader of the insurgent government. There must be no such intrusion in these days. It would be well, moreover, that an English or Irish sub ject should be excluded from the office. Italian priests are less likely to interfere in domestic politics. There can be no doubt that the government will willingly consent to all reasonable precautions which may be suggested for such purposes as these. To carry the measure itself they will only require a little firmness and patience. IT was not to be expected, when all the world were busy with a discussion on questions of currency polemics, that Col. ToRRENS could hold his peace. Of all living writers, he is unquestionably the man who has the keenest relish for questions which admit of endless attenuation; and justice compels us to add, that he is without a rival in that peculiar faculty of abstruse dissertation which very few people have the courage to read, and still fewer the courage to profess that they understand. It must be regarded as a misfor tune, equally affecting Col. TORKENS and his genera tion, that he has happened to flourish in an age when the fame and the vocation of the sehoolmen are held in very cheap estimation. Four centuries back, in the days of DeNs SCOTUS, it is quite impossible to overrate the brilliant success that he might have ob tained. In our own day, and amidst a people wha have a strong predilection for common sense, there is no escape from the distasteful but very obvious fact, that the exhibitions of Colonel TORRENS' peculiar faculty excite more amazement than attention, and repel rather than satisfy intelli gent curiosity. Ever since the events of the autumn we have been expecting the advent of Colonel TORRENS' exposition, and we were somewhat curious to be hold its bulk and pretensions. Of his indefatigable en• thusiasm, and of his gift of interminable ratiocina tion, we were well assured; but whether the exube rance of his own energy, and the dignity of the occasion, would lead him to entomb his illustra tions in a pamphlet or a volume, in one book or in many, we were quite uncertain; at length our expectations are fulfilled, and our surmises set at rest. Within the last few days a corpulent pamphlet of 180 1 pages has issued from the press, intended as the manifesto of Col. TORRENE to all the world in favour and defence of the act of 1844, and especially desigr el to inflict a merciless extermination upon the audacious heresy which has called in question the creed upheld by the valour and dialectics of so stout a champion. That the book is not a quarto, instead of a bowl, tire, is plainly an act of great self-denial; but if the mis sile be small, the contents are intended to be of the most explosive description. As Mira sad sof the provocative epistle of Bob Acres, " it don't look like another letter ; it is a designing and malicious looking letter, and smells of gunpowder like a soldier's pouch." It is to be regretted that another passage from the same inimitable play is equally applicable to this book of Col. TONRENS, for we are quite sure that no man a ill peruse its frequent sallies of rudeness, without recalling the excellent ad vice of the Irish baronet, "to remember, when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild and agreeable way, and to let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword." After all, it is by no means certain that Mr. TOOKE, Mr. FULLARTON, and Mr. Wttsox, upon whom the hottest portion of Col. Tomtess anger is expended, will expire under the attack. The assault is more furious than skilful, and the instances are not a few where the only mischief occasioned by the hos tile shafts of Col. TORRENS is in their recoil upon himself. We never met with any publication which in eisted with so much emphasis and pertinacity upon the full and literal doctrines of the currency hypo thesis. There is no abatement, not a single trace of concession. Ever) thing ie discussed and defined in the nomenclature of the ultra et ctof the hullioniets; and greatly es Mr. RICARDO and his researches are praised throughout the tract, we have considerable doubts whether that acute but candid philosopher would have felt himself safe in the custody of so bigoted a disciple. The ambiguity occasioned by the affected adherence to scieatific precision, is quite disheartening. What, for example, can be made of a man, who discards the in• telligible phraseology of high and low prices, to talk about the appreciation and depre ciation of the currency—who considers that the effects of a bad harvest are better described by saying that our domestic currency had departed from the par level of continental currencies, instead of simply saying that corn was scarce, that it was, therefore, dear, and that large importations were undertaken to supply the defi ciency—or who insists that a rise of prices in Yorkshire is to be spoken of, as a disturbance of the equilibrium between the provincial and the metropo litan circulation, leading to an adverse exchange, as re g ards London, between London and Yorkshire; or, in other words, that the circulation of London bears an agio compared with the circulation of Leeds, and as far as we can under stand—to carry out the principle—that occasionally the currency of Cheapaide may command a premium, compared with the currency of Cornhill ? Combining this repulsive and ambiguous vocabu lary with the constant recurrence of verbose and be wildering " cases " of hypothetical illustration—and these two peculiarities constitute the merit or demerit of Col. ToitaEss —there is no difficulty in attach ing a rational meaning to the horror which his name excites among ordinary readers, nor in com prehending how it is that so acute a person should have written eo many books to so small a purpose. The present design of Colonel TORRENS appears, at first, to have been twofold, viz , to defend the pre sent Bank charter, and to expound his own peculiar canons of currency ; but his plan has been so imper fectly prepared that the first object—beyond all com parison the more important of the two—is, in a great measure, set aside by his zeal on behalf of the second. The opponents of the present system have no cause to grumble with such an arrangement, but those who desire the retention of the two departments of the Bank will scarcely fail to say something about the unlucky and unwise distribution of the contents of the pamphlet. They will be apt to think that the prevalent suspicion which accuses the upholders of the law with having nothing to allege in its defence will not be removed by the appearance of an octavo volume by the writer sup posed to be the most skilful of the sect, in which a discursive inquiry occupies the place of what should have been a pertinent and vigorous defence. In strict truth, almost the whole of the justifica tion put forward by Col. TORIMNS is confined to the reiteration of the impudent figment, that the act has been perfectly successful because the notes out of the issue department have conformed to the changes in the bullion. In other words, he justi fies the act by confounding, under the term circula tion, the notes which have been really circulated, and which are in the hands of the public, with those which lie idle in the drawers of the banking depart ment, and which have not been circulated at all. Now, this is a kind of logic which it is difficult to describe without the use of flat and uncourteous epi theta. It has been given up as desperate by the more circumspect colleagues of Colonel TORRE:VS Sir Cnsutes Wool) and Mr. F. BARING have both been anxious to vindicate their common sense from the imputation of holding so gross a dogma. But passing over that circumstance, let as see by what ingenuity it is again revived. Here is the syllogism. The banking department is the same as any ordinary banking house—the reserve of the banking department is therefore the same as any ordinary banking reserve; ordinary banking reserves are part of the circulation—therefore the reserve of the banking department is part of the circulation ; and this cannot be denied, unless it be main tained that all banking reserves must be ex cluded from the circulation. Very well : then we beg to say that according to Colonel Toitaaas' cardinal postulates, this is precisely what should be done; all banking reserves should be excluded from the circulation. Col. TORRENS' notion of circu lation is of something which, by coming in eontact with commodities, regulates prices. He says it is the " essence" of circulation to determine prices. Than do banking reserves come in contact with commodi ties 1 Do bankers carry on the trade of merchants and shopkeepers? The ordinary belief is gaits to the contrary. Bat Col . Tortiteas* will say, h oo. r eserves do affect prices, inasmuch as upon ti;4 amount depends the quantity of hotel 'dna* $y the bankers to the mercha nts . Rot, if banker has a reserve of 10,0001. i n notes, sad lends a merchant 3,00 0 f. in notes, are prices in coo, sequence of that transaction affected to the extent of the five or the ten thousand? Surely to the extent of the 6,0001. only. If that be true, then hank. ing reserves only affect prices to the extent to which they are actually issued to people who deal in prime. in other words, all that part of these reserves which remains quiescent with the banker does n o t come contact with commodities, does not therefore affs o t prices, and cannot therefore be an integral punk a o f that circulation of which Col. TORRENB tells us it i s the "essence , to determine prices. This is a deduction upon CaL Toratems' own Oa. ciples: for ourselves, we do not profess to hold any such extravagant opinions respecting the circulation ; and we are quite content, with the explan at i on j ot given, to leave Col. TORRENte great discovery in be. half of the unlucky statute of INI-1 to pass for wh a t is worth. ROME, Jar. 2s. The news from Palermo will long since ha le reached you, but you can have no idea of the joy aid excitement thereaneut here. People go out for sea m to meet the courier on the Via Appia, and eau& ordinary supplements are issued hourly by our sem i . papers. Poor old Lord Mount Edgcumbe, who h gout-ridden, had bombshells sent Into his run and his servant killed : he is now, with i n the English residents of Palermo, huddled togethe r ea board the steamer Bulldog. The poltroonery of the Neapolitan forces, and the determined conduct of th e steam men and woman, are the theme of all circl es , In the list of voluntary gifts of the sinews of er r t o carry out their purpose of nationality, the Be ll e w tines of the town figure for 4301., and, str: :: say, the Palermitan Jesuits for 300/. • I. Some light seems to have dawned on the fath er , in that island. The grand feature of thi s outbreak is the possession of artillery on the side of the patriots, over forty or fifty pieces of ordnance having been secured by their leaders, and they Trade prisoners in the onset of over 100 artillerymen, whom they have got to work their guns. The importance of this accessory in warfare is fully felt by the Ito. mans, who hailed the other day with delight the present sent them by the ladies of Genoa, • small eadeau of two 12-pounders in brass. At the review of seven battalions of oar civic guard on the broad square of St. John Lateran yesterday, with the cry of " Long live the Pope ! " suddenly arose, and was re echoed to the skies, the shout of" Long live the men of Palermo." Let us hope that we shall have to re. cord a permanent result for that long•uppressed, island. SeicUides mus:r majora ranemu,.. A most vigorous article was published yesterday, under the heading "No Masks, but Cannous " call ing on the Romans to forego this year the expensive tomfooleries of the Carnival, and consecrate the money annually lavished on buffoon displays to the purchase of a dozen more field-pieces. The hint is likely to be adopted ; for, now that the citizens feel themselves to be treated like men and rational beings, they have assumed the tastes and bearing of such, and scorn the grovelling merriment of slaves. Poor old Roothaan, the General of the Jesuits, is sore sick in body and at heart; and, should the order bold a general congress for a successor, it is to be hoped they will come to some determination of abandoning the cause of obscurantism in southern Europe, and swim on the surging tide of popular amelioration. We are moving onward in the path of reform and good government with a dignified, slow, bat steady pace. To proceed with deliberate and solemn step is the characteristic of Roman statesmanship, and such has ever been the march of her leading minds in the important matter of church government over Christendom. It is not without cause that our town is called the eternal city. No one is in a hurry here, and we take no account of time. The very genius of the place is a spirit of enduring permanency, and hence the difficulty of removing old abuses and reconciling the inveterate habit to salutary change. As an instance of bow much the god Terminus rules in Rome, and how little liable an established thing is to alteration I can mention that not only the house and the baker's shop, but even the identical marble counter and the scales are to be seen in full operation this week, just in the same state as they were when, over 300 years ago Raphael's Fortiorisa *old penny rolls across that counter,and a succession of bakers and baker maidens has never ceased to officiate therein. The almost invisible inscription over the plinth of the door was carved by Raphael's own hand, " TRAHIT SVA QVEMOVE VOLVPTAS." The family of Prince Massimo (our famous postmaster) have lived on the same spot where the Palazzo Massimo stands, in the Via dei Maseinsi, for the last 000 years! When I was a student at the University here, a quarter of a century ago (I am ashamed to own as much), I used to frequent, with the other collegi ins, a large esta blishment for dining in Via Condatti. There were ten waiters attending the various rooms 25 years ago, and on looking into the concern the other day I re cognised eight of the ten still extant! The two others waited there no longer, because—they were dead. This remindeth me of .‘lfred Tennyson's philosophic remarks on the immovable peculiarity of the head waiter at the Cock in Fleet-street. But then his was a " single captive " : Head waiter of the chophowe here fro( Moo wilt mon from To nhieh I moot ro,ort. hence, too, mo.t prat. I hold thee dtar The vbere thy fate alh ; For that good plot of port. Thy laurr 4.. y.. Wens- d with For thio thou shalt from all thing* pence, muck Go down among the pot.. Marrow of mirth and laughter : Thou higt.....t by tly, greaq gleam And wher,oeser thou more, good In tlOUnti tummy .Ir.nen• . luck Old hole. larded with the 40003 Shall girt'{ her old .hoc after. Of thirty thutnetrid thnnor. TesNtoox'- top. 11.. page P.O. The students of the Universi'y assisted at a solemn high mass in their collegiate chapel for their brethren slain at the university town of Pavia. They had crape and cypress branches. Some of the crowded assembly, observing the presence of Father Gavazzi, a celebrated piete.Nier, surrounded him, and carrying him on their shoulders up into the pulpit, ordered him to preach a funeral sermon for the fallen. Whereupon the orator broke forth into a most splendid improvi sation, and stirred up the souls of his young auditory to a pitch of devotional as well as patriotic fervour. The celebrated Herr Keller, the posture-master, whose poses plastiques and company of performers met such approval among the people of your metro polis, is making a rich harvest here. They have corn pelledihim, however, to " widen his phylacteries," and put a little more drapery on his troop of nym?hs. FRANCE,—PARIS, FEB. 7.—COUNT MORTIF.B.— About a month ago, the physicians charged to examine Count Monier bad reported that, considering the state of his mind, he ought not to be removed from the mourns do sane.. in which he had been confined. On Saturday last the physicians presented a second report, in which they state, tint, that Count Mortier is affected with partial mental alienation ; second, that this alienation cmisirts in believing himself the object of implacable hatred ; third, that 11,i• idea leads him to adopt determinations of vengeance and fstil re solutions ; and tourth, that Count Mortier must be coon ' dered as a dangerous lunatic. The report enters at some length into a disquisition on the count's mental malady. It is stated, for example, that his mental affliction does not pre vent him from understanding, and even discussing with great art, the questions which concern him; the di-ease is of a peculiar nature, influencing what are called the senti ments, and in consequence perverting the judgment, causing false ideas to be conceived, and conducting to desperate reso lutions. Thus the count imagines that be is the object of violent hatred, and that it is desired to make hint appear mad, in order that his skin, as he says, may be taken from him. He complains of wanting everything, food and even air, whilst the fact is, that he is supplied with all that he i can require. He however rejects much of what is offered to him, and will not indicate other objects which he would prefer. "Ah !" he cries, "if I were one day to write my memoirs, and tell my sufferings, the tortures of Sylvio Pellioo would be nothing compared to what I suffer here He says that the government fears that he will divulge "state secrets," and therefore wants to cause him to be considered mad : that he has recornised an emissary of M. Guirot among the physicians who had visited him; that IL °snot has adopted the resolution of making him pass for mad without having examined him; that the Chancellor is influenced by hatred towards him; that in the scene of the Hotel Chatham the Prefect of Police had gashed him for ward, and now felt that he had gone too far to retreat. The physicians set forth in their report that the accusations against the Chancellor and the Prefect of Police are the result of a sort of mirage, an effect of the mental alienation of the count. In entering into explanations respecting his wife, he contradicts himself by ad mitting that circumstances, which he formerly de scribed as positive, are uncertain. He persists In declaring that the letter to his wife threatening to kill his children and himself was only written to cause her to come to the hotel. He pretends that his wife flagrantly con tralti heaK when she says that he was desirous of kill ing trup. memo him, and then himself. " 1 could not do both !" be cries, " aor pe lt! Let ber choose ••, When told that there Gore positive that th. • e that Count Mortis"' is die often, it says, seri • gird s rribed to b e terriole, sissisfre. 1 The Queen and l' Prince of Wales, P Princess Al?, ic and ri ' It Duke and Duchess rkl, Idensdorff, left Wind- r 4 The party occupied it' 1 by a detachment of the Sloug h station of the tt special train for the F. The Queen wit; afternoon, at three o'. A deputation fr. houses in the pariah o• the fever hospital in . h an interview with yi., of Co lon elds and 1.01 s W. L. F • G. Grey Y"t e !" 7 ' A deputation front waanu facturers, ycomo.. o f Dorset, Wilts, and proposed South West, had an interview v yesterday, at the . o ffi c, mentorild Unalllololl, at Shaftesbury, on T 0.., A deputation, co man), Mr. T. Bruahli , sG Church, Spitalfield.), (hike*, had an blur Majesty's Woods and 0, COMMERCIAL ral meeting was held yo fur the purpose of tilii tioo, occasioned by the Henry Caulfield, and bald, Air. Wm. Cooper, in their stead.—The C he felt great pleasure .0 had been most ',Wisha tot last. They had existed tentous ; indeed, he been such remarkabl. ribs, stock, and all past year. They ha ls had had Exchequer B they had had t era articles of commerce, 1 , 111 declined in value froi eumstances the mans ten liar caution, and he ..as even in October or Novl in Weir balance ahoy,. 10 of last year. Ile had gn last half-year the pro-, in responding period of 1811 been less, the higher It could not have been free from in they had gone th ani of no importance. much leas than might the state of the market done by the bank. in nate. Foreseeing in sot directors had, in th.• sat aiderable amount cm Et be enabled to meet he accommodation and sash since replaced the whole leas than they had sold enabled to add somethin the concern. Since :he progress had contirvied had during the month amounts. The statems applause, and was a, km chairman and direct. rs. METROPOLITAN 1) meeting was held at tt'i (granted gratuitous by of the Poor Man's Caen lanthropic Anociatii n. fuge in Leicester-sou ire, Toe meeting, the lar .74 was but Unfit,. eta Charles Cochrsse w the proceeding. of the duty had devolved upon was prevented by a pr or a present. The noble led, that he cordially m topat societies by which tots • rivery day good, wholesc to 960 poor persons, tan that the societies sto In this respect they complain during th. w nishLd by the pull c. guineas to 15 guinea fallen efr, still the s. oe pursuing their present ci which at present prevaill palling. The w,nrF bot crowded state, and tie aight on the pavan. it i they could not get a I ' de.titution were met • pith which the auth rct the new poor-law. —y to appeal t , olished in LAIC, tet .ropolis.—The C•t ar ttributed 201., an., 7 imated that a don kti ae Royal Al . by makin • ipathies of tl • p Aldis in e resolution o destitutiot. n Height, ar•t ng kind ti haunt., ei Jgs o 1.1 crim-, cunt, e Ih human, se %mil) pi I lc Ne, dli le • ay unite fee ab,e in r, ie the witte expel, es e by th• dl unetie, p l • every ue kitish 1 ,h 1 tl l 4' the pr. e petlti.on •rc `le auerd .n 'Jeep 1. ,k .41 I . • sing b ea Or the p ol los at • ,e , ae purp the w said thAti It vest. sington • A prevent `station .I f legal • oh of Me of the h hear Ili • (to-morn 0) Mr. was :a . pve a gen. ra rom its origin t trio Third, to its enth veinal increase by .V Ow, it Was a pope' sr *akin attached to it aleiency which it severed by the extra a --an articles payinit osmeequence—in ad.!i WWI th would be yi WU • material pas lei promised that it consequence, a polen, which had pre , Seim time after this a wow so opened wta *me Lord Althorp witith could only be woes commissioner his especial notice. proposed measure wt .e paper press for their .2 Daft News, in wht dap ago—he believed hesitation in saying wrlllim on the sub,* • Indebted to that pup Austin seco n d e d that in the report had been no alltudo:v Adored to he a mater. a 1 adaissera bad req I 7 .-- s.. mercha n t, is claim to Y. bank;._ upon e n , I advain o t Rut, if notes, and ices in con. e extent of the extent then hank, at to which el in pri me; t •I'Vell Which not come M self ' m both . scribed garde t h irop rrisr i.e h T iii : „kb: ' ... m .., C o le i ii e s t oaii....b:::Ated:tlitbl Quee n v thati el' cries, is . r .: s reoti.,,,cbliiteshi nails tin, i , h° °I el f e r ne . s ' _ : :: d pc t h ai l: a: r. : , I. ‘ ' . . ' .t, ' : : !. bienadorff, left Wind- r refure affect• al Portia of I i us it is s' own prig- o hold any circulation; t ii o :"E ; nt dhtebu njer e f. ti ctßesedi. eeAj i °sc r so fithei n nr y.hat eitala bs E l:l . very in b n , , T t b b .8. afternoon, special Y o l h o euAT l i u s ..,:f l g t h vee zw re detachment it station t i rnnyaih,eticunw tee deputation ecfptuohr n d P o it i t f e h: : d w i i nhy b fo it irr e o l 'i.i: I. . . of the Woods and Fm • Colonel W. L. F. . G. Ore] yesterday, a' A deputation front ; itanufacturrs, yconur, ; of Dorset, Wilts, and ' proposed South West. , and extge. vil, had an interview yesterday, at the o ffi ce . ) 3' our aews. memorial unanienous,v übui As le ' at Shaftesbury, on Tu. . ) has he m , A deputation, co i with all ei, man), Mr. T. Brushfi. : together la Church, Spitalfield.), . . enery of the Oilkm, bad an int. rvi Majesty's Woods and of till circle., - - we of warts COMMERCIAL IL S rat meeting was held y atm: for the purpose of tilai V. ' i tioo, occasioned by the Henry _Caulfield, and bald, Mr. Wm. Cooper, re of We in their stead.—The (' a the side of he fr It great pleasure .n of ordnance had been meet Wisha op id they Trade last. They had existed tentous ; indeed, he Ail ymen, whom been such remarkabl. c • itnportanoe tines, stock, and all , • r. by the Ito. • put year. They tie . delight the had had Exchequer : they had had t e noa, a small articles of commerce, et it the review declined in value fro, t m the broad cumstances the mane Pr • th the cry of liar caution, and he and was re- even in October or Nov in their balance above li live the men of last year. lie had g ill have to re- last half-year the grit-s p og-oppressed responding period of ISI been less, the higher int . It could not have be 1 yesterday, been free from in they had gone th au; touts' " call- of no importance. to expensive much leas than migh• to the money the state of the market the purchase done by the bank. in is likely to nate. Foreseeing in • • directors had, in th.• ea 1 themselves siderable amount of E s, they have be enabled to meet he nd scorn the accommodation and ass' since replaced the whole leas than they had sold esuits, is sore . enabled to add somethi le order hold the concern. Since :he to be hoped progress had contin..cd ' abandoning had during the month FAirope, and accounts. The state ~ applause, and was a , kn. ioration. chairman and direct. rs. 1 of reform METROPOLITAN I) ' I, slow, bat meeting was held at Wil . and solemn (granted gratuitous by t itesmanship, of the Pour Man's Goa lanthrupic Avociati, n, her leading fuge in Leico.....r-squ ire, government The meeting, the lar •er use that our was but thinly att..,el s in a hurry Charles Cochrese a ~ .. The very the proceeding. of the duty had devolved upon Permanency, wasprevented by a pr or 1 abuses and present. The noble hard, try change that he cordially s) nips minus rules societies by which tots led thing is every day good, whol to 960 poor persons, an. Y the house l that the societies stn .1 i tical marble In this respect they ill operation ' complain during th , w were when, nislu.d by the publ c. sold penny guineas to 15 guinea. fallen off, still the s , 'le f bakers and pursuing their present. ite therein. which at present per dinth of the palling. The won ho " Tit AHIT crowded state, and tie • family of night on the pavem. it i they could not get a I ..' Lave lived ille.titution were Met into stands, with which the auth el mire! W'hen et the new poor-Ise. quarter of a Seceasary to appeal I . .c.h), I used Stabli.hed in Leic. to Setrupolia.—The Cl air large eats- tributed 201., an., y There were timated that a don itt 5 years ago, i at the It, yal Al r day I re- ncluded by m ain • d sympathies of ti • p e two others hich were conlami .a Iv dead. Mir Charles Aldis ut v I philosophic minded, a resolution o of the head warty and destitutio, n then his was attained, a height, ar I Bloat alarming kind t Serous workhouses, - .•,• en,: then the maladministrati. 'i • Ste MUM, ; des and sufferings o Auras- d with that mendicity, mina ~ be a tearful extent, r d'a', the iota.ova.r clean, teethed by a human, • . ary .iraneo , Son, and temporaril) Oh the 4(9). of Christian medist i. n ,d th em., . ilmolution was pow.' u li.. page 1t.3. Rev.• at a solemn lroere4 by the t union work Ile h• ta eir brethren of the Distressed No. dl They had !Erect : " That the a U. the crowded goicester-square, un tr• employment for el , e- n] . Gavazzi, Went service in r, in end carrying poor during the wi , to ordered him Of the heavy expel. es Whereupon these societies by the d did improvi- venom., this mien.. p end refuge by every mg auditory «meetly recommeni A is fervour. generous British 1 lb store-master, agreed to for the pm c ' performers tare of a petitien •,r your Illeteo- Soled by r th to e si ezard pt. :1 1; ey have corn- tine so oppo•ed t . a ecteries," and d thanks having b• ea nym?hs. parated. ABOLITION' ()I' II tepayers of the p is MORTIF.B.— Id last evening at • to id to examine hare, fur the pure or the state of r: seal of the w• 4. R a id , and said that the MOISOIS li6 opted by the vest. airday last the d Mr. Luahington .o ich they state, ons. The present as , partial mental Ting the petition ..-I sin believing elf• rally. Delegat . , that this idea ith the parish of NI e and fatal tv- Chancellor of the h must be coma- hoped to hear 11. enters et some Thursday (to-morn v) I malady. It is upen hint.— Mr. 1.. n does not pre- is., which was to iscussing with presented to parliaro n he di-ease is of without which no 10.1,i • lied the send- deeded to give a gery tment, causing tae, from its origin i' desperate reso- the Third, to its era. is the object of gertual increase by .' ke him appear OW, it was a pope: in be taken from chum attached to it , food and even aleiency which it -- . rich all that he Mewed by the extra ... what is offered --ell articles paying 'filch be would eameequence—in ad,i • ay to write my with would be ei ures of Sylvio Wee a material pun I suffer here:" lad promised that .e will divulge it consequence, a ass him to be pagella, which had p a emissary of items time after this a ted him; that wow so opened win tg him pass for *Ma Lord Althorp • . Chancellor is Ai* could only be , o e scene of the wain commissioner • i asked him for- hi especial notice. .1. p retreat. The proposed measure w. ie Pe accusations press for their ••2 if Police are News, in whet . f the mental days ago--he beliem.i explanations bedletion in saying mil by ad- wrielem on the s ub • formerly de- imighted to that pup . persists In XL Austin seconded tenang to kill that in the report cause her to had been no aaksio:t tagrantly con. adared to ha a mater. sirous of kill- ishaismers bad req • • I could not do With which the auth m et the new poor-L.. Seceasary to appeal I . 'astablished in Leic, I ligetropolia.—The Cl , fd tributed 20f., an., timated that a don t , at the Real, y neluded by main , tympathies of tt • hich were contemi . Mr Charles Aldin en • GOnded, a resolution testy and destitutior attained a height, ar Most alarming kind serous workhouses, Ste nuladministrath. den and sufferings o that mendicity, Coin) Ile a tearful extent, e nedied by a human, Son, and temporaril) Of Christian mediati. Otoolution was pose.. by the Rev. I ro e r e et union workh• elf the Distressed No. des. " That the. Leiceatcr-square, un employment for at. Sent service in t. poor during the wi. Of the heavy expel. three societies by th. persona, this mtetin. end refuge by every earnestly recommen. generous British i agreed to for the pr , tare of a petition • Soled byr to sleepthe d ~ tine so oppo.ed t d thanks haring b panted. ABOLITION' or tepayers of the p Id last evening at • care, fur the purp repal of the w• sided, and said th opted by ,he vest. d Mr. Luahington ons. The preterit vine the petition en. rally. Delegat ith the parish of ' Chancellor of the hoped to hear 11. Thursday (to-morr, upon him, Mr. tiem, which was presented to parliara without which no an . deeded to give a gen. Is:, from ita origin I, —.. . . . PARLIAMENT.4RI PAPERS. HOUSE OF LORDS. (21.) —Tile WEST WINSTaIt CLOCK.—RETURN : Further papers relative to the great clock for the new palace at Westminster. These papers relate to Mr. Dent'a being replaced on the list of competitors, and to Meter,. Thwaites and Reed being refused leave to compete, because " the number of competitors enters as an element into the expectations which induce distinguished artisans to enter into the competition." Mr. Airy, whose words we quote, appears to think the public interest quite • secondary consideration. Mr. Airy writes that experiments by Mr. Jacobi, which he has seen at St. Petersburg, convince him that his own proposal to employ " the spare power of the large clock to excite a magneto electric current, by means of which many, or all, the assailer clocks in the palace could be kept in motion simultaneouly with the large clock," is practical to an extent that mikes It desirable the question of adopting it should be entertained. HOUSE OF COMMONS. (66.) COUNTY litaras,—BlLL: To authorise certain persons to act as TO CORRESPONDENTS. Tan number of 3 I'AM P 8 issued to the DAILY NEWS by the authorities of the Stamp-othce, during the year 1847, was: _ From JAN. 1,13 Due. 31, 3,447,009 This, we believe, is within eight per cant. of the number issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, snd Morning Post, ALL PUT TOGETHER. In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Morning l'aper, there were issued for the Evening Edition, THE EXPRESS, From JAN. I, to DEC. 31 778,714 Which was more, we believe, than were issued either to the Globe or Ntaticiard, Evening Papers, • Tr Teoll • 11.4" Lome. eeettlatt clerk cm the Ile, el pebpepet,tleatire‘..' BIOS WATT' AT I.4)TDON STWOC. Tam I:44—M•robmil. akia.pri4 4: alt••• 000. 16.1.. peat I. Te 414•4414-114404.. Y .►pY &1 Alterman. I •144.P444 4. LONDON, WEDNESDA Y, FEB. 9. Ix the HOUSE of LORDS, yesterday, a conversation ensued, at the instance of Lord COLCHESTER, on the subject of the mercantile steam navy, on the occasion of his moving for returns relative thereto, with the view of ascertaining whether they could be made available for the purposes of war if they should be requited. His impression was that there were 63 of such vessels having contracts with the govern ment, but which at present were not fit for war pur poses The Earl of AUCKLAND could assure the noble o . lord that a report had been made as to the condition of the contract vessels at the end of 1846, and they would be placed at the disposal of the government on the event of a war. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH asserted that this country and the government of India were paying 500,000/. a year more than was necessary for the conveyance of letters to India; he thought, therefore, vessels whose proprietors possessed such advantages, should be ready for the service of the country at any time when they might be required.— The Marquis of LANSDOWNE having intimated that he should not move the second reading of the 11i11 for the F.stablish ment at Diplomatic Relations with the Court of Rome until Thursday the 17th, the Earl of E4LINTON inti mated that, while he admitted such a measure might be necessary, he should in committee propose a clause preventing the Pope from sending an ecclesiastic as ambassador to this country. The Marquis of LANS DOWNE said lie would never have asked their lord ships to give their assent to the bill unless he was enabled to prove to their entire satisfaction that it would not be attended with the slightest injury to the protestant religion. The Bishop of EXETER was glad to hear the declaration made by the noble mar quis, as it would enable their lordships to approach the subject with much less difficulty. In the HOUSE Of COMMONS the ATTORNEY GENERAL, in answer to Mr. URQUHART, entered into an explanation, and read certain correspondence, re specting the case of " Buron e. Denman , " as relates to the retaining of Sir FITZROY KELLY on the part of the defendant, he having acted in a previous stage as counsel for the plaintiffs. The right hon. gentleman said the subject had been a matter of petition to that house by the attorney for the plaintiffs, and of comment in leading articles in the Daily News, the result being that he had ordered a communication to be made to the attorney for the plaintiffs to the effect that the crown would not require Sir FITZROY KELLY'S assist ance in the case.—A discussion ensu-d relative to the new Houses of Parliament and the expense attendant thereon, which terminated by Mr. OSBORNE'S de claring he would bring the subject under the consi deration of the house on the first order of the day being ra3ved.—Mr. C. ANSTEY preferring his own motion for papers on the subject of Foreign Policy to proceeding with the Jewish Disabilities Bill—a propo sition which was strongly urged upon him—took nothing by it, the house being counted out in the course of his address. THE proceedings of Monday night in both houses of parliament were more than usually favourable to the cause of common sense. It is really wonderful that a debate should be maintained night after night, in which one side enjoys such a monopoly of reason ing as that which distinguishes the supporters of the bill for removing Jewish disabilities. We will not insist on the incredible platitudes delivered by Mr. CocuasNE and Mr. NEWDEGATE ; one of whom pro. feared his desire to legislate for the Jews in the spirit of JULIAN, while the other relied on the argument which was urged against JULIAN'S scheme for re building the Temple of Jerusalem. Mr. NEWDEOATE is of opinion that the admission of Jews to full rights of citizenship would be an act of opposition to Provi-